Be a miracle!

       You hear the rain pattering on your window as you slowly open your eyes. It’s 6 am, you shiver against the cold and pull your robe tighter around you. With a full belly and warm clothes you head off to work. At the end of the day you come home to your cozy home and warm bath. You sit down for a filling meal and enjoy a relaxing evening around the fire with your loved ones. At bedtime you lay your head down on your pillow and sleep the night away in comfort and warmth.  This is America.

   Across the globe children wake up too, but theirs is a different kind of day. 

   The first thing this child hears when she opens her  eyes at 5am is the rain leaking into her house. She shivers as she gets up to boil water for her bath, yet she thanks God for the roof over her head and the worn out clothes that she has.  As she sits down to the only meal she will receive that day, she is grateful she has sustenance to fill her belly for the time being.  Her day is long and hard, with very little play. By night fall she is exhausted. She lays down on her worn out mattress and tugs the thin blanket tighter around herself. As she drifts off to sleep one last thought floats through her mind. She is scared and hungry.

    In the same town another child is going to sleep as well, but unlike the first, this child must find shelter before the rain comes again.This child woke up this morning to the cold rain on his face and mud forming under his makeshift cardboard bed. All day he has frantically scrounged around for scraps to eat. Tonight his belly is empty. He is lost and alone, hurting, confused, scared. When at last he finds shelter it is merely an overhanging roof. He lies down on the cold ground, wet and bitterly hunger. An abandoned orphan left to starve in the streets. This is Africa.

   Billions of children around the world are orphaned each day. Abandoned and neglected they are left to starve in the streets. These children are in serious danger and they need help. YOUR help. We are the future for the children of the world, how we respond to their need determines whether they survive. Please be a helping hand to these children, a miracle in their life! There are plenty of orphan outreaches throughout the world, pray about where God wants you to help and DO SO. If you use your financial or physical means to serve these children, the least of these, God will bless you effort! Don’t take for granted what you have. You have it for a reason…so GO!

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:18

"For the glory of God!" 

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